GO GREEN, GO DIGITAL, GO BB!!
Boffin Butler (BB) takes you to new dimensions of paperless procurement with their complete online aggregator platform which makes you to stay transparent and monitor your institutional procurement status. We improve customer/vendor experience, ensuring a more collaborative setup to save your time, cost and effort. BB (your online lab manager) will support you with a unique 'Go Digital, Go Paperless; Go Green' procurement portal.
Often, paper-based procurement involves a lot of paperwork that needs to be done for your laboratory purchase which experiences slower process and more administrative resources. It at times leads to erroneous situations pertaining to documents lost, misread invoices, inadequate follow-ups and poor file maintenance. Hardcopy storage of the paper trails, require allocation of massive space and organization system, which requires impractical use of human resources and square foot occupancy.
Requiring ink signatures on paper-based documents is yet another impractical and time-consuming task where days or even weeks can go by in the pursuit of multiple or high-ranking signatures. While, e-signatures/approval take moments and can be collected from any device where approvers can authorize purchase orders at any moment with minimal turnaround time. BB steers you to a new 'Go Green' world where your organizations/institutes can reduce paper invoices, records or any paper-based documentation that can be taken up by computers and can be stored in digitized formats.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the production of one ton of paper (equivalent to 200,000 sheets of paper) requires approximately 24 trees, 7,000 gallons of water, and produces 1,100 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions. A research university like IIT processes approx. 10,000 purchase orders annually, and each purchase order requires an average of 5-10 sheets of paper including multiple steps, such as PI verification, quotation comparisons, purchase requisition form, purchase order, invoices, receipts and some manual errors. The number of premiers research institutes such as IITs, NITs, IISERs, DBT, and CSIR in India total to more than 100 institutes.
So, by switching to a completely paperless procurement system in just premier institutes in India, we could potentially save around 1200 trees corresponding to 12000 m2 squares of forest, 3.5x105 gallons of water saved annually and 55000 pounds greenhouse gas emissions can be avoided every year.
In India there are 1074 universities as on today, which does procurement at one or the other level. Imagine how much paper waste are getting generated. Apart from it there are many companies who are involved in research also. All in all end to end digitization for procurement in research universities/company can create a huge difference and make entire process more sustainable.
If Dr. Rena approaches BB, we route her to our cost saving strategy by using our e-invoicing. She can access and browse online catalogs at BBs aggregator platform anytime; anywhere. From then she can monitor the transactional documents with ease, making herself free from printing, scanning, manual reference number matching and so on. She can also assist her procurement team to achieve economies of scale by processing large volumes of invoices quickly, easily and accurately and help the organization going green. BB strives to be the best technical partner to institutes that want to go paperless and provide a reliable procurement system, with information cloud that will allow you to make the best choices for your operations and research activities.
BBs digital procurement platform eliminates errors inherent to carbon foot printing. Your procurement department can hence focus more on strategic sourcing and less on redundant tasks.
Join with BB in the Journey of Go Green Strategic Procurement.
